PhoenixPrime01
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OOC: Warning, if depictions of black slavery hundreds of years ago in the US is offensive to you then read no farther. If it doesn’t offend then do read on and we hope you enjoy the story.
IC:
The McDonald family has lived on and owned “The Oaks” since just after American became a country. Acre by acre its grown so that now it encompasses half a square mile of mixed cotton and vegetable fields tended by the families of the original slaves and the newer ones who’ve been bought and brought in to work as The Oaks has continued to grow.
Fergus McDonald is the current owner of the plantation and master of all he surveys on it. He’s a tall slender man of fiery temper and temperament and is a deadly shot and swordsman, as his winning several duels has proven to one and all, with wide shoulders and the wiry muscles and narrow hipped build of a horseman, for he spends a lot of time on one touring his holdings. They include not only the fields and their crops, but also the molasses press, the still, the meadows for the cows and horses, the peach orchard and all of the other trappings of a prosperous working plantation and farm.
Fergus’s wife Abigail had caught the coughing sickness and died two months ago. She’d died before she could give him any children and so Fergus now lived alone in the big house.
It would be another nine months before mourning conventions would allow him to seek another wife, but a man had his needs and Fergus was more virile and sexually active than most and was also honest enough with himself to know that there’d be no way he’d be able to go a year without a woman. Therefore, Spring now here, he’s planned a trip to Salter’s corners for the next scheduled slave sale. There he’d pick out a slave bitch and bring her home to The Oaks for his use and pleasure.
The sale is to be tomorrow so Fergus leaves The Oaks in the capable hands of his head overseer and rides down in the afternoon to inspect the slaves to be sold and enjoy a night at the Inn before the sale.
Upon arrival at Salter’s Corners he engages a room at the Inn and then strolls over to the Auction House where tomorrow they’ll be selling slaves rather than horses, cotton or produce.
IC:
The McDonald family has lived on and owned “The Oaks” since just after American became a country. Acre by acre its grown so that now it encompasses half a square mile of mixed cotton and vegetable fields tended by the families of the original slaves and the newer ones who’ve been bought and brought in to work as The Oaks has continued to grow.
Fergus McDonald is the current owner of the plantation and master of all he surveys on it. He’s a tall slender man of fiery temper and temperament and is a deadly shot and swordsman, as his winning several duels has proven to one and all, with wide shoulders and the wiry muscles and narrow hipped build of a horseman, for he spends a lot of time on one touring his holdings. They include not only the fields and their crops, but also the molasses press, the still, the meadows for the cows and horses, the peach orchard and all of the other trappings of a prosperous working plantation and farm.
Fergus’s wife Abigail had caught the coughing sickness and died two months ago. She’d died before she could give him any children and so Fergus now lived alone in the big house.
It would be another nine months before mourning conventions would allow him to seek another wife, but a man had his needs and Fergus was more virile and sexually active than most and was also honest enough with himself to know that there’d be no way he’d be able to go a year without a woman. Therefore, Spring now here, he’s planned a trip to Salter’s corners for the next scheduled slave sale. There he’d pick out a slave bitch and bring her home to The Oaks for his use and pleasure.
The sale is to be tomorrow so Fergus leaves The Oaks in the capable hands of his head overseer and rides down in the afternoon to inspect the slaves to be sold and enjoy a night at the Inn before the sale.
Upon arrival at Salter’s Corners he engages a room at the Inn and then strolls over to the Auction House where tomorrow they’ll be selling slaves rather than horses, cotton or produce.
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